Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Turkey and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Jacob Miller to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All The Last Poets tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Sneak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Urselle,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Terry Callier,
The Doobie Brothers,
Roxy Music,
Fluxion,
Sugar Minott,
Skaos,
Banda Bassotti,
The Pop Group,
Harmonia,
Lou Reed,
Nils Olav,
Rapeman,
Groovy Waters,
John Holt,
Erasure,
Absolute Body Control,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nation of Ulysses,
Mr. Review,
Pylon,
The Monochrome Set,
Schoolly D,
Jeff Mills,
Cal Tjader,
Sparks,
The Zeros,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mary Jane Girls,
Funkadelic,
The Walker Brothers,
Barry Ungar,
Sun City Girls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Isaac Hayes,
Magma,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Soulsonic Force,
kango's stein massive,
Hardrive,
The Vogues,
Scott Walker,
The Human League,
The Dead C,
Heaven 17,
Brand Nubian,
Lakeside,
Delta 5,
Laurel Aitken,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
JFA,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Shadows of Knight,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eddi Front,
Sam Rivers,
FM Einheit,
Peter & Gordon,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.